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A review by timinbc
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
3.0
There's so MUCH here, so much justified anger at so many things. So much that even I, an older white male, can see how it would be hard to contain in one story. And for me, it did burst out of its container.
Early on, I struggled with the infeasibility of living in the woods with newborn twins. Somehow, as more fantastic elements got added they became easier to accept than the more ordinary stuff.
Vern's development from totally broken is remarkable, and this book deserves praise just for that.
I admired the presentation of deeply crazed people sincerely believing that the ghastly stuff they were doing was GOOD. Relates to Canada's treatment of its indigenous peoples.
As a regular SF/F reader I had no trouble at all with the whole fungus plot., It was well handled.
The pause with Ruthanne just before the climax didn't work for me, perhaps because the "climax" somehow felt as if I watched it all through the wrong end of a telescope. I put the book down not at all clear about exactly how it all ended.
But gosh, still a major work with a huge idea.
Early on, I struggled with the infeasibility of living in the woods with newborn twins. Somehow, as more fantastic elements got added they became easier to accept than the more ordinary stuff.
Vern's development from totally broken is remarkable, and this book deserves praise just for that.
I admired the presentation of deeply crazed people sincerely believing that the ghastly stuff they were doing was GOOD. Relates to Canada's treatment of its indigenous peoples.
As a regular SF/F reader I had no trouble at all with the whole fungus plot., It was well handled.
The pause with Ruthanne just before the climax didn't work for me, perhaps because the "climax" somehow felt as if I watched it all through the wrong end of a telescope. I put the book down not at all clear about exactly how it all ended.
But gosh, still a major work with a huge idea.